Air Gabon

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Air Gabon
The Air Gabon logo
Air Gabon Boeing 747-200
IATA code : GN
ICAO code : AGN
Call sign : GOLF NOVEMBER
Founding: 1949 (as Transgabon )
Operation stopped: 2006
Seat: Libreville , GabonGabonGabon 
Turnstile :

Libreville-Leon M'ba

Home airport : Libreville-Leon M'ba
Company form: State company
Fleet size: 4th
Aims: National and international
Air Gabon ceased operations in 2006. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Air Gabon was a state-owned Gabonese airline based in Libreville and based at Libreville Leon M'ba Airport .

history

A Douglas DC-6 of the Transgabon in 1972

In 1948, the French entrepreneur Jean-Claude Brouillet, the one acquired forwarding business in Gabon, an aircraft of the type de Havilland Tiger Moth to airmail to transport within the colony. However, the machine was damaged in a storm, so that the start of flight operations under the name Transgabon (officially Transports Aériens du Gabon) could only take place a year later with a De Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide and other small aircraft. The company initially used its machines on mail flights and on behalf of mining companies. From 1951 Transgabon offered passenger flights for the first time and carried 2300 passengers in the same year. In the 1950s, the company also ran feeder services for Air France . After the colony gained its independence in August 1960, Air France sold three of its Douglas DC-3 stationed in Africa to the company, which it used on national routes as well as on flights to the neighboring countries of Spanish Guinea and Congo .

The Republic of Gabon joined the international Air Afrique consortium in 1961 . Air Afrique also participated in Transgabon , which was retained as a national airline and provided feeder services. Jean-Claude Brouillet sold his remaining shares in the company in 1964 to the French airline UTA , which thus held a majority stake in the company until 1968. In 1968 the Republic of Gabon acquired the shares in UTA , which largely nationalized Transgabon . In the same year, the company merged with the airline Compagnie Aérienne Gabonaise (trading as Air Gabon ), which was created in 1951 as a charter airline and served national routes with propeller aircraft from the manufacturers Beechcraft and de Havilland Canada . The company Société Nationale Transgabon (SNT) emerged from the merger of the two companies , in which Air Afrique and the state of Gabon each held half. The SNT continued its flight operations from 1968 to 1977 under the name Transgabon .

At the beginning of 1977 the Republic of Gabon ended its cooperation with the multinational consortium Air Afrique and took over SNT completely. After the nationalization, the company was renamed Société Nationale Air Gabon and operated under the new name Air Gabon .

Air Gabon operated international flights to Paris with a Boeing 747-200 from October 5, 1978 . On national and regional routes, the company used aircraft of the types Fokker F28 (from 1974) and Boeing 737 (from 1978). The Boeing 747 was replaced in 1996 by a Boeing 767 , which from then on was used in Paris, among other places.

In 2006 Air Gabon filed for bankruptcy . The Republic of Gabon planned to set up a successor company called Air Gabun International , in which Royal Air Maroc wanted to participate. However, the successor was Gabon Airlines , which ceased operations in 2011.

Destinations

Air Gabon Boeing 767-200, 2004

In addition to some domestic destinations, Air Gabon mainly served international long-haul routes, for example to Rome and Paris .

fleet

Fleet at the end of operations

Air Gabon Boeing 727-200, 1999

Before flight operations ceased in 2006, Air Gabon's fleet consisted of four aircraft:

Previously deployed aircraft

Air Gabon and its predecessors continued among others. a. the following aircraft types:

Air Gabon Boeing 737-200, 1998

See also

Web links

Commons : Air Gabon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Encyclopedia of African Airlines, Ben R. Guttery, Jefferson 1998
  2. ↑ Airlinercafe.com, Transgabon [1]
  3. ↑ Aero, issue 190/1987
  4. ↑ jp airline fleets, spending 1975 and 1978
  5. ^ Ulrich Klee and Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1966 to 2006
  6. ↑ Fokker 100 fleet list - Former operators http://www.fokker-aircraft.info/fleetlist-previousf100.htm ( Memento from April 5, 2017 in the web archive archive.today )